Marine’s account of killings played in court

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Marine’s account of killings played in court
By Allison Hoffman - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Mar 28, 2008 21:13:22 EDT

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A Marine charged with murdering an Iraqi detainee captured during fierce house-to-house fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, said his squad leader asked for help killing captives after weapons were found in their house, a naval investigator testified Friday.

Sgt. Jermaine A. Nelson, 26, is one of three Marines accused of shooting unarmed captives in November 2004 during some of the heaviest fighting of the war.

Nelson told investigator Mark Fox in a March 2007 interview that his squad leader, Jose Nazario Jr., became irate after AK47s were found upstairs in the house where four Iraqis were being held after they indicated they had no weapons.

Prosecutors played a tape of Nelson’s interview with Fox during a pretrial hearing that will determine whether sufficient evidence exists for a trial.

Nelson, who sat in a cramped Camp Pendleton courtroom wearing neatly pressed desert fatigues, stared straight ahead as the recording of his graphic account of the shooting was played.


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